Why are so many forms of entertainment politically left-leaning?

[BiggerChungus]

From movies to TV shows, to books and video games, the vast majority of entertainment pieces seem to, at the very least, lean left politically, and at most fully embrace the leftist political spectrum. Not in terms of some shit like U.S. politics, Republicans vs. Democrats, but sociopolitically; forms of entertainment whose writers espouse socialism, Marxism, and the like, and/or are critical of capitalism, traditionalism, morality, or moralism.

It's incredibly hard to find things that don't have a political angle to them, and harder still to find things that don't have a leftist angle specifically. Though the trend's become much more obvious in the past decade, it's been happening for a very, very long time.

Why?

 

[Exister]

Why would the child fucking jews in hollywood fund media that calls them out silly billy

 

[Abella]

Leftoids are notorious for being consoomers.

 

[Mothra1988]

It only got really bad after Obama's re-election for whatever reason.

 

[Anime Kid With Goggles]

From a social, economic, and career oriented perspective, being a leftist is considered the ""Default"" position to be in. And in the media sphere, even a slight curve to the right is viewed as being generally unfavorable. Both socially, and economically. So non-political entertainment creators, directors, artists, and companies who happen to lean right, generally do not make their political opinions public. Or at the very least are very mild with them. If an artist, creator, or company leans left, there's no social or career oriented stigma of expressing those opinions outward, so they speak them out.

It's not that, "so many forms of entertainment is left leaning", I would argue that is not correct. There is pretty much an equal amount of leftists and right wingers across the board in the entertainment world. It's just that those left wing opinions are the only ones you really hear, because in the situation where an artist or group makes those opinions known (they usually don't) Those are the ones they are actually comfortable with expressing.

 

[Skitarii]

Leftoids are notorious for being consoomers.

See that's true

But we're all here using kiwifarms

We're just as consumerist as they

 

[smegma enthusiast]

The jobs that produce entertainment are relatively new, and require a college education. Acting, writing, cinematography, etc, etc. Colleges are lefty. People in entertainment become lefty. People watch lefty entertainment. People become lefty from consuming lefty media. People go to lefty college to produce lefty entertainment. The cycle continues.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Because in entertainment your abilities don't provide any kind of objective benefit, you have very little leverage, if you're an artist/musician/actor/whatever your entire livelihood is basically saying to people "Hello folk who actually produce things, if you like what I do please share your goods with me".

It's why as great as the arts are recreationally, the idea of having it be your sole source of income would be absolute hell. You're a monkey dancing for peanuts and you can be blacklisted and lose everything at a moment's notice if you step out of line, nobody needs you.

I'd guess that's why. Beyond liberal elitists being major consumers and thus a primary source of income, and historically only the more elite classes having the free time/resources to dedicate to the arts, when it comes down to it entertainers are quite expendable and are welfare cases in their own right, they know that their position in society is completely dependent on support from others and from being socially appealing, and it's from that kind of insecurity that collectivist type thinking arises.

See that's true

But we're all here using kiwifarms

We're just as consumerist as they

That's not true at all sir.

This is a forum, the users are the content creators. Any website that involves uploaded data from users is a collaborative effort, even shitty sites like Twitter. Any time you post something you're generating content for the website.

Absurd as it sounds, in a way we're all writers/artists for Kiwi Farms (obviously not officially though since that would cause legal problems). Jannies mop for free, users produce content for free, and poor captain J Moon scrapes by bless his heart.

 

[Skitarii]

Because in entertainment your abilities don't provide any kind of objective benefit, you have very little leverage, if you're an artist/musician/actor/whatever your entire livelihood is basically saying to people "Hello folk who actually produce things, if you like what I do please share your goods with me".

It's why as great as the arts are recreationally, the idea of having it be your sole source of income would be absolute hell. You're a monkey dancing for peanuts and you can be blacklisted and lose everything at a moment's notice if you step out of line, nobody needs you.

I'd guess that's why. Beyond liberal elitists being major consumers and thus a primary source of income, and historically only the more elite classes having the free time/resources to dedicate to the arts, when it comes down to it entertainers are quite expendable and are welfare cases in their own right, they know that their position in society is completely dependent on support from others and from being socially appealing, and it's from that kind of insecurity that collectivist type thinking arises.


That's not true at all sir.

This is a forum, the users are the content creators. Any website that involves uploaded data from users is a collaborative effort, even shitty sites like Twitter. Any time you post something you're generating content for the website. It's certainly creatively superior to sitting around watching Netflix, although how much depends.

Absurd as it sounds, in a way we're all writers/artists for Kiwi Farms (obviously not officially though since that would cause legal problems). Jannies mop for free, users produce content for free, and poor captain J Moon scrapes by.

We're not creating content, we're creating visual diarrhea

And then consuming it. KF is a consumer website

 

[mate]

It is called the LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS. It started decades ago. Google the term and you'll learn all you need to know.

 

[The Last Stand]

Left wing policies, at least in the American context, are often associated with social tolerance. Of course, like with the Religious Right of yesterday, there IS such a thing as too far...

 

[CryoRevival #SJ-112]

The US's popular culture is not left wing, it is a secular branded cult of the self.
It just has the illusion of being left wing because it is mirrored by a Christian branded cult of the self.
Both are obsessed with money, influence, power, and self glorification and have no actual philosophical or spiritual basis.

But if you want to know why the 'right wing' seems absent, it is because the American Right is heavily and increasingly steeped in biblical literalism which, if you've ever seen something on Pureflix, will show you that this means everything the american right wing creates is in the vein of the first 8 minutes of 'The Invention of Lying'.

All art exists to reinforce the culture, so in the US you essentially get a choice between:

• The """"Left"""" - A desperate attempt to fill the void of 'the sacred' in a post Nietzschean cultural Death of God (Mostly using Idols like Fame, Fortune, violence, and the self)
• or The Further Right - Reinforcing that all things in culture only mean what they say at face value (Still heavily on Fame, Fortune, Violence, and the self, because these Idols are inseparable from American culture at this point).
• "Apolitical" - This is just reinforcing the base level political and cultural norms, it is just lying to you, telling you it is uncontroversial and not to question it.

By searching for something apolitical, you really mean acultural in that it does not attempt to reinforce or critique any aspect of culture. "
It doesn't exist because it is inherent to art and entertainment's nature to do this, the best you're likely to get is look at either childrens pictures, or art from a culture totally alien to you, but it will still have the same reinforcing/critiquing effect,it will just be segregated in that culture's little box in your brain.

 

[Wuornos]

Because that's how you brainwash the masses.

 

[moseph.jartelli]

Because conservatives are overwhelmingly not 'creatives'. It's been that way for a long time. I'd argue there are more now, but still miniscule overall.

 

[byuu]

Stable traditional job in a quiet area or going from one gig to the next in Hollywood/New York/etc.

What is a conservative more likely to choose?

 

[Homophobic white dog]

I don't see a lot of pieces of media expousing '"Marxism".
There is sometimes a critique of facets of capitalism like corporate culture but that's neither Marxism per se nor anything else, it's just answering to a basic demand on the market. People know that something's wrong, they want to know what, they try to articulate it, and critical media show them what's wrong and why, often in the wrongest possible manner since someone has to write that critique and it might as well be them in order to sway public opinion to the solutions they offer to the problems they caused in the first place.
So, yes, consensus building for reform and basic laws of supply and demand, together.
Sometimes the critique can even be good, it can even be "Marxist", but at the end of the day it's still a product, a commodity being sold to a base of customers that demands it, and by virtue of its open access it loses all subversive qualities it might otherwise have.

If you want an explanation for the attacks on traditional norms of what constitutes right and wrong, it's just that the prevailing values of any given society are those of its ruling class, and from a social Darwinist ruling class that worships Satan you can only get deconstructions of morality like the cynical dog eat dog kind you find in some stuff like Game of Thrones and The Expanse and transgenderism. Also note how this kind of morality is framed within the most "realistic" scenarios, implying that there is really no possible world aside from the one being represented.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Probably because having a conservative mindset requires a degree of close-minded rigidity which is not generally conducive to creativity.

 

[Wormy]

Because leftists, by and large, are better at writing it.

There is pretty much an equal amount of leftists and right wingers across the board in the entertainment world. It's just that those left wing opinions are the only ones you really hear, because in the situation where an artist or group makes those opinions known (they usually don't) Those are the ones they are actually comfortable with expressing.

There's plenty of right wing media entertainment outlets, however. Why don't they go work for them?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Ok, but a proper non-schizo answer:

- Most of the news/opinion pieces online are left leaning
- 95% of people tend to follow/trust the popular opinion, instead of come with something controversial
- Most media tends to appeal to the majority and tries to avoid outrage

 

[BiggerChungus]

It is called the LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS. It started decades ago. Google the term and you'll learn all you need to know.

If anything it started more than a century ago. Cultural Marxism's whole basis was infiltrating, corrupting, and finally subverting society by targeting things like the media, news, and education one by one.